The Penn's Grove record., 1887-03-26

William Foster, coxswain, were
drowned.
Near White Bread Hill, in the In
dian Territory, recently, a man named
Foster fired several shots at a nous
which appeared in a corner of his log
cabin where stood a "a Of powder.
One of the shots struck the can and eX-
plOded the powder. One of Fosters
children was killed and another NOR
tally injured. while Foster and his
wife sustained severe injuries.
The powder factory of L. C. An.
thong, near Negaueee, Wisconsin, blew
up on the Dist, killing L.. H.. Stanley
and his son Albert, aged Is years.
While some workmen in a house
in course of erection in Lancaster,
Penna., on the DIST, were drinking beer
from a keg, a quarrel arose and Alex
Ander Leibsley. a plastereT, stabbed
George w. POnty, a painter, in the
neck, mtlicting what is believed to be
a fatal wound.
An ~18-year.old daughter of Floyd
Walton was shot ard dangerously
wounded at Charlottesville, Virginia,
on the 2lst, by a young man named
Patterson, who was handling a pistol
which he thought was ~unloaded.
Henry l.. Adams, book-kteper il
the Ereniag Star office at Washington,
disappeared IN the 10th. bis accounts
are correct, and foul play is feared. He
was about 40 years of age, and left a
family of seven children
The floods in Dakota continue.
All attempts to dis.odge the ice gorge
above Mandan have proved futile, and
telegfaphic communication with that
place has been cat off. al the low
.ands between MandaL and Bismarck
were flooded, and the Boston syndicate
property. including a Touring mill and
some fifty residences, elevator shops
tud everything s0uth o. the tracks, was
submerged. AT Pierre the river was
higher than at any time since 1881, and
at Suniown people were seer flying TO
the bluffs a; Fort Ilerre, on the oppo-
ste ste.
The rain. sieet and snow storm Of
he 2IsJ and 22d prevailed over a wide
reach Of country. The storm was re-
ported as being experienced at Boston,
Albany, New York, Bufao. Clevt-
and, and other points. Communica-
ion by telegraph with the West was
almost entIely cut off, aud no aGvices
we're received during the day frCm
Chicago, Detroit, Cincinnati, st. Louis,
Cleveland, Toledo, Louisville, and In
d~ianapoiis. South OF Washington there
was also a temporary SUSPENSION of
tnlar 20 nIin IF1giDn1S A tnlanro m fran
Shenandoah, Peuna says Twelve
nche of $40 fell there on the 22l.
Tie storm Was the seveIest of the year;
all trains were delayed from Lalf an
hour to two hours, and nearly all the
collieries in the region were compelled
70 suspend operations. Fifteen inches
Of snow fell on the pa in the Mohawk
Valley, New YORK. From five to
Twelve inches Of snow fell in the Wyo-
ming Valley,
Tie internal revenue collections
during the first eight months Of tn.
present lsual year were S74 .24S $685., o.
1911, 6J7 less than during the cores
ponding peGiol of the last fiscal year.
Senator Sherman arrived at Biz
mingham, Alabama, on the Dist. and
made a speech there on the evchIng of
the 22d, in the course of y h ell lie adj
vocaIed protection for the industries OF
the South. 1t is related that the pro
pIietor of the hotel where the Senator
FIRST stopped refused to allow IA delega-
lion OF co'Ored men to be received Iii
the Senator's room. Mr.. Sherman i'm
mediately paid his bill and went to an
other hotei.
George b. Westcott, President OF
the National Bank of Chestertown,
Maryland, died on the 22d at the age
Of 81 years. lie was Chairman of the
Republican Committee of Kent county.
Tho Chattanooga Land. Coal,
iron and r ilway Company was organ
lied Gu tie 22d at Chattanooga. 1t
has purchased 5000 acres of land in
and around that city, and will build a
railroad, erect blast furnaces and coke
ovens, open mines, and make other i'm
ployements, which will cost about
ST. 500, 900.
-ClinedisJ & Bodwell, carriage
manufacturers. of Stanton, Virginia,
are reported to have absconded, ''leay-
ing between twenty-five ana thirty
thousand dollars of debts. a large part
of which Is represented by forged
notes"
The Court of Pdrdons at Trenttn,
New Jersey, on the 22d, committed the
sentence of Janitor Titus, who vas to
have been hanged for the murder Of
Title Smith, to Imprisonment for life.
Governor Beaver has signe |
"Ttact on bill, No 26;" t. g bul to
preserve the health Of female TN )loyes
II factories; the bill to protect live y
stable keepers, aud The bill relating to
judicial sales and the preservation Of
liens of mortgages.
The Missouri river fell twelve
| inches at B.smar k, Dakota, on Il e
| evening of the 81 It, but rose again on
the p to its former height. a family
named Jackson, consisting of four
persons, las been drowned at Painted
Woods.
The main levCe At Leland, Arkan.
sas, broke on tie evening of the 2lst,
ami the gap, on the 22d, had reached a
width OF nearly 800 yards, through
which the water passed like a mile
race.